Author: parsec
Subject: RAID Setup Menu
Posted: 01 Jan 2017 at 8:01pm
So you can create the RAID 0 array with the Intel utility in the UEFI/BIOS, and you can see it in the Intel utility if you restart the PC, but nothing at all in the Windows installation process? I forget, are you using Win 7?
I can't believe Samsung changed something with the 960 series... so I get to buy two 960s to check this?!![Angry]( "Angry")
I doubt that is true.
Another reason I am (was) less than thrilled about the RAID 0 of NVMe SSDs, is they tended to be... delicate, as I termed it. What I mean is, if you had one created and Windows installed on it, if you simply cleared the UEFI/BIOS, the RAID 0 array would fail on the following restart of the PC. That would never happen with SATA drive RAID arrays. That seems to have been fixed with an update to the UEFI, by keeping the PCIe Remapping options alone during a UEFI/BIOS clear.
If you have a Windows installation on another drive, try creating the RAID 0 array of 960s in the UEFI, and then boot from the other OS. In Windows, check if Disk Management sees the RAID 0 array and lets you format it.
Don't forget the SATA ports are shared with the M.2 slots. If you have SATA drives connected to the shared ports, the M.2 SSDs won't work correctly.
Subject: RAID Setup Menu
Posted: 01 Jan 2017 at 8:01pm
So you can create the RAID 0 array with the Intel utility in the UEFI/BIOS, and you can see it in the Intel utility if you restart the PC, but nothing at all in the Windows installation process? I forget, are you using Win 7?
I can't believe Samsung changed something with the 960 series... so I get to buy two 960s to check this?!
I doubt that is true.Another reason I am (was) less than thrilled about the RAID 0 of NVMe SSDs, is they tended to be... delicate, as I termed it. What I mean is, if you had one created and Windows installed on it, if you simply cleared the UEFI/BIOS, the RAID 0 array would fail on the following restart of the PC. That would never happen with SATA drive RAID arrays. That seems to have been fixed with an update to the UEFI, by keeping the PCIe Remapping options alone during a UEFI/BIOS clear.
If you have a Windows installation on another drive, try creating the RAID 0 array of 960s in the UEFI, and then boot from the other OS. In Windows, check if Disk Management sees the RAID 0 array and lets you format it.
Don't forget the SATA ports are shared with the M.2 slots. If you have SATA drives connected to the shared ports, the M.2 SSDs won't work correctly.